See oversubscription on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "over",
"3": "subscription"
},
"expansion": "over- + subscription",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From over- + subscription.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "oversubscriptions",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "oversubscription (countable and uncountable, plural oversubscriptions)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "oversubscribe"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "11 46 43",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with over-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A subscription for more than is available."
],
"id": "en-oversubscription-en-noun-UVmwzerb",
"links": [
[
"subscription",
"subscription"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Programming",
"orig": "en:Programming",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "11 46 43",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with over-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
27,
43
]
],
"ref": "2021, Hang Huang, Jia Rao, Song Wu, Hai Jin, Hong Jiang, “Towards Exploiting CPU Elasticity via Efficient Thread Oversubscription”, in Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC '21), New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 215–226:",
"text": "This paper explores thread oversubscription, i.e., provisioning more threads than the available cores, to exploit CPU elasticity in the cloud.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A multithreading technique involving an extra thread that runs tasks when all other threads are blocked."
],
"id": "en-oversubscription-en-noun--V-L~UEL",
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"multithreading",
"multithreading"
],
[
"technique",
"technique"
],
[
"thread",
"thread"
],
[
"block",
"block"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming) A multithreading technique involving an extra thread that runs tasks when all other threads are blocked."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Networking",
"orig": "en:Networking",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "1 37 62",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "11 46 43",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with over-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 30 68",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 29 69",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
21,
37
]
],
"ref": "2018, Jon Tate, Pall Beck, Hector Hugo Ibarra, Introduction to Storage Area Networks, page 171:",
"text": "You can overcome the oversubscription of an ISL by adding an ISL between the switches to increase the bandwidth.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The practice of connecting multiple devices to the same switch port in a storage area network."
],
"id": "en-oversubscription-en-noun-jNxaJTnI",
"links": [
[
"networking",
"networking#Noun"
],
[
"switch",
"switch"
],
[
"storage area network",
"storage area network"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(networking) The practice of connecting multiple devices to the same switch port in a storage area network."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"networking",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "oversubscription"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with over-",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "over",
"3": "subscription"
},
"expansion": "over- + subscription",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From over- + subscription.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "oversubscriptions",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "oversubscription (countable and uncountable, plural oversubscriptions)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "oversubscribe"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A subscription for more than is available."
],
"links": [
[
"subscription",
"subscription"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Programming"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
27,
43
]
],
"ref": "2021, Hang Huang, Jia Rao, Song Wu, Hai Jin, Hong Jiang, “Towards Exploiting CPU Elasticity via Efficient Thread Oversubscription”, in Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC '21), New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 215–226:",
"text": "This paper explores thread oversubscription, i.e., provisioning more threads than the available cores, to exploit CPU elasticity in the cloud.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A multithreading technique involving an extra thread that runs tasks when all other threads are blocked."
],
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"multithreading",
"multithreading"
],
[
"technique",
"technique"
],
[
"thread",
"thread"
],
[
"block",
"block"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming) A multithreading technique involving an extra thread that runs tasks when all other threads are blocked."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Networking"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
21,
37
]
],
"ref": "2018, Jon Tate, Pall Beck, Hector Hugo Ibarra, Introduction to Storage Area Networks, page 171:",
"text": "You can overcome the oversubscription of an ISL by adding an ISL between the switches to increase the bandwidth.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The practice of connecting multiple devices to the same switch port in a storage area network."
],
"links": [
[
"networking",
"networking#Noun"
],
[
"switch",
"switch"
],
[
"storage area network",
"storage area network"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(networking) The practice of connecting multiple devices to the same switch port in a storage area network."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"networking",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "oversubscription"
}
Download raw JSONL data for oversubscription meaning in All languages combined (2.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (e937b02 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.